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Mon 5 Jul, 2004 08:11 pm
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Huawei in Spying Flap
A major equipment vendor is accusing a Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. employee of corporate espionage following an incident that occurred after the Supercomm exhibit floor closed on Wednesday, Light Reading has learned.
from Merriam Webster online
flap:
6 a : a state of excitement or agitation : TIZZY, UPROAR b : something (as an incident or remark) that generates an uproar
Huawei may be coping, but most employees are standing around flapping their arms and their jaws and their esp and their resumes.
My hardbound and pizza stained 1980 edition of the Random House dictionary has as #18: slang: a state of nervous excitement; an emergency situation.
Flap now (at least to me) means any controversy.
It fits into a newspaper's headline so easily to describe any issue being debated.
Controversy is the modest one.
Thank you all.
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